From koffice  Tue Nov 30 12:51:11 1999
From: Marc van Kempen <marc () bowtie ! nl>
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 12:51:11 +0000
To: koffice
Subject: Re: M$ Word filter?
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=koffice&m=94396656105928

 
> > There already exists a MSWord->HTML converter (mswordview, see
> > http://www.csn.ul.ie/~caolan/docs/MSWordView.html), maybe it can
> > be edited to write KWord-files? It is GPL'ed at least, a good starting
> > point :-)
> 
> Sigh - a C Nightmare :) I really tried to find my way through the code,
> but at a certain point I decided not to use *that* as a starting point :)
> 
Have you looked at wvware? The author seemed to agree with your assesment
of the code, and in view of the Abiword authors wanting to use the code to
import Word files, decided to rewrite it as a library. At the same 
time it got renamed to wvware.

see	http://www.wvware.com

Don't try to reinvent the wheel, please!

Marc.


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